Schoblom v. Schoblom

Citations

• 117 Wash. 67
• 200 P. 579
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1002

Syllabus

<p>Trial (25) — Reception of Evidence — Number of Witnesses — Discretion of Court. It is not an abuse of discretion to limit the number of defendant’s witnesses to four or five in an action for divorce on the ground of cruelty, where the testimony of the witnesses excluded would not have been addressed to a direct refutation of plaintiff’s charges, but would have been confined to the fact that they had seen nothing wrong in the conduct of defendant.</p> <p>New Trial (8) — Prejudice of Judge — Trial De Novo. A divorce action being triable de novo on appeal, the fact that the trial judge may have been prejudiced against appellant affords no ground for awarding a new trial.</p>